On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:36:00 EST, Joshua Brady said:
I was talking more along the lines of disclosing personal information without permission, slander is another one as well...
I'm coming up empty-handed on statutes for the disclosure issue. Asking around in the office found lots of rules that we as a university have to comply with (mostly having to do with the information's status as "student records"), and businesses often have privacy requirements (see HIPPA and similar, and California has it's very recent laws regarding notification of information disclosure due to hacking incidents), but I'm not finding any good cites for "Joe User discloses Jim Random's info". Tacky? Yes. Illegal? I'll wait to hear a citation (federal would be somewhere in USC or CFR, state laws would be wherever your state keeps them - but making them apply to an Internet incident might be tricky...)